A PrimeTime SIG event was held in San Diego during DAC on Monday, June 6, 2011. One hundred and sixty PrimeTime users and managers attended the event from more than sixty semiconductor companies. The theme of this SIG was Next-generation ECO Guidance Technology.

Dr. Colin HuiDeputy Director, Design Enablement - Design infrastructure
GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Colin was the session chair for the PrimeTime SIG at DAC 2011 event. He introduced the topic and the speakers of the evening and moderated the Q&A panel.

Venkataraman Srinivasagam
Technical Lead Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Venkat presented hold fixing ECO results on a multi-voltage design. He shared how he was able to achieve, within a couple of hours, a 98+% fix rate with 25% less ECO changes on a multi-scenario run.

Hsiao-Pin (Robin) Su
Senior Principal Scientist – IC Design
Broadcom Corporation
Robin touched upon one of the key values of Next-Generation ECO, which allowed him to run 33 scenarios with just 9 cores, and provided comparable QoR and a minimal impact to runtime.

Stefano Cavallucci
Lead ASIC design engineer
STMicroelectronicsStefano focused on hold fixing with 60 scenarios on a highly congested design, and how Next-Generation ECO was able to cut down the TAT by half.